Cemetery Committee site in the North (Lachat
[l.], Fromson-Strassler and
Aquarion[r.]); foxes like the area[c.]! Valley Forge Bridge to be
finished Dec. 2010...
"Juliana Lachat Preserve
Preserved - Winter!"
is a watercolor by Margaret Wirtenberg. Mrs. Fox of the Fox
Family of Wilson Road, pauses before checking up on her
babies. See video
now!
LEGEND
(land use colors) here...
NEIGHBORHOODS - northern area. Hint: for reference, use our
still-a-work-in-progress existing land use 2008 map here;
you will need a lot of
green pencil for this coloring exercise! Blank map here.
The Nature Conservancy, Aspetuck Land Trust, Aquarion and
the State of
Connecticut, as well as the Town of Weston together own so much land
here that the effective density north of Godfrey Road is equivalent to
four acre zoning (as was indicated in the 1995 Regional Plan for South
Western CT). As Weston intesifies development in and around its
"center" so the Town of Redding is doing in its part of Georgetown.
Georgetown (a census designated "place" consisting of property in four
Towns including Weston) is undergoing dramatic change. The former
wire mill (Gilbert and Bennett) is being converted to its own little
village - read about this project here.
Old Valley Forge Bridge out - just getting new span installed in
October 2010...
Weston P&Z reschedules
hearing
Weston FORUM
Written by Patricia Gay
Saturday, July 12, 2008
A public hearing seeking building lot approval for a piece of property
on Georgetown Road, known as the “Ballfield Lot,” was postponed.
At the request of the applicant, Lost Trail LLC, the Planning and
Zoning Commission agreed to postpone the hearing to Monday, July 21.
Robert Walpuck, a principal of Lost Trail LLC, appeared before the
commission on Monday, July 7, the original scheduled hearing date, to
confirm the hearing would be postponed.
The applicant is asking the commission to approve as a building lot a
2.1-acre property that contains a small baseball diamond.
In 2007, the commission granted a certificate of zoning compliance to
Sovereign Bank for a 2.2-acre lot adjacent to Lost Trail’s lot,
allowing the Sovereign property to become an approved building lot.
Mr. Walpuck said he was ready to present his application at the public
hearing scheduled for July 7 until his attorney, Robert Fuller,
received a letter dated June 27 from James Pjura, the town’s code
enforcement officer.
In the letter, Mr. Pjura referred to Lost Trail’s application for
development of 7.07 acres, and said it is the position of his office
that “further division of the 7.07-acre parcel will require a
subdivision application because there has been a ‘first cut’ of this
property.”
Mr. Walpuck asked the commission why he received such a letter since
his application involves only a 2.1-acre lot, and not other property he
owns. As a result of the letter, Mr. Walpuck said, he needed more time
to respond.
Don Saltzman, P&Z chairman, told Mr. Walpuck, “You came in for two
acres and that is what we will hear.”
The commission voted unanimously to reschedule the public hearing for
July 21.
Walpuck
seeks P&Z approval for Georgetown 'ball park'
lot
Weston FORUM
Written by Patricia Gay
Friday, 20 June 2008 00:00
Weston builder Robert Walpuck would like the Planning and Zoning
Commission to do for him what it did for Sovereign Bank.
On Monday, June 16, the commission accepted an application from Mr.
Walpuck’s company, Lost Trail LLC, asking it to approve a property on
Georgetown Road, which contains a small baseball diamond, as a building
lot.
That lot is adjacent to property owned by Sovereign Bank that the
commission approved to receive a certificate of zoning compliance in
March 2007, allowing it to become an approved building lot.
Several weeks later, Lost Trail filed a lawsuit in Norwalk Superior
Court against the commission and Sovereign Bank, appealing the decision
to approve the parcel as a building lot, on the grounds that the
commission should have approved lots that were owned by Lost Trail as
well.
“The commission shouldn’t have just carved out the Sovereign Bank lot,”
Lost Trail’s attorney, Robert Fuller, said at the time of filing the
lawsuit.
That suit is still pending in court. In the meantime, Lost Trail has
filed the latest application.
“It’s really a simple matter,” Mr. Fuller told P&Z Monday night.
“If Sovereign Bank is entitled to a zoning permit, then this lot is as
well, provided it meets zoning approval,” he said.
Commissioner Dan Gilbert said he wondered whether the application
should go to the town’s code enforcement officer for action, rather
than the commission.
However, Don Saltzman, P&Z chairman, said the commission should
afford Mr. Walpuck the same process as Sovereign Bank, and the
commission unanimously voted to accept the application for further
consideration.
A pubic hearing on the application will be held at the commission’s
next meeting, Monday, July 7.
CLICK ON THE MAP TO GET THE
WORD ON GEORGETOWN.
THE NORTHERN PART OF TOWN: Legend here.
HINT: those areas that are either vacant, open space or large
lots show as white on the map above. NOTE: We have left blank
those properties we are unsure of, and more map come up as our work
progresses; like everything
else on the Internet, this information is not official.